Bryce Eger, President of Corteva Agriscience Canada, joins Dan to talk about leading 600 people through a three-company merger and a pandemic at the same time, with no playbook for either. He's candid about seeing a counselor monthly and treating it as professional development, and walks through the communication systems, virtual coffee chats and one on one calls, he built to replace hallway conversations COVID took away. The tension is that agriculture's leaders are often expected to be unshakeable, while the people actually running large ag organizations deal with the same uncertainty and isolation as everyone else. Producers walk away with a specific, practical model for staying connected to a team and to their own mental health under real operational weight.
Bryce Eger stepped into leadership at Corteva at the moment the company was being formed from several others, and the playbook he expected did not exist.
Eger, President of Corteva Agriscience in Canada, joins Dan to talk about what actually holds a large organization together: how the merged companies built a shared culture, the single most important skill when you step into a leadership role, and how the team stayed connected through the pandemic. He also looks ahead at how farming will change over the next decade, including carbon sequestration and what it means for farmers.
What's Inside
- What changed to make Corteva a strong organization after combining several companies
- The biggest skill needed when stepping into a leadership role
- How to communicate a mission, vision and purpose so a large team actually hears it
- How Corteva handled the pandemic, and what it focused on first
- Where the biggest obstacles and challenges sit for farmers right now
- What Eger expects farming to look like in ten years
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